How to Build OpenCV 4.X for Native Android Development

For a number of different reasons, you might want/need to build OpenCV from scratch instead of using the pre-built and official libraries provided by OpenCV. Since you’ve ended up reading this post, there’s a good chance that you already know why you might need to do this, but if you don’t, you can check out my similar post from a couple of years ago for some answers on this. That post was based on OpenCV 3.3 which is considered out-of-date these days, especially with OpenCV 4 out in the market (OpenCV 4.0.1 at the time of writing this article), so I decided to write a new tutorial to address some of the differences. So without without further ado, here we go.

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